Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance

Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance Review

See more picture

Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance Feature

Filipino Peasant Women presents a compelling example of the power of the powerless. In it, author Ligaya Lindio-McGovern offers the first study of the everyday lives of Filipino peasant women and their means of resisting the exploitative system in which they find themselves. While illustrating the increasing exploitation and poverty these women face, Lindio-McGovern challenges the conventional portrayal of them as submissive victims.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Brenda: Webster's Timeline History, 1998

Brenda: Webster's Timeline History, 1998 Review

See more picture

Brenda: Webster's Timeline History, 1998 Feature

Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Brenda," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Brenda in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Brenda when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Brenda, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary

Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary Review

See more picture

Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775: A Biographical Dictionary Feature

This book spans more than 200 years of U.S. diplomatic history. Its geographical scope widens along with the expanding interests of America itself, from initial exclusive concern with the empires of Europe, to the emerging nations of Latin America, to the commercial opportunities and geopolitical concerns of Asia and Africa. The ambassadors chosen for inclusion reflect these historical changes in American foreign relations. Organized alphabetically, the biographies present an implicit account of the evolution of the U.S. diplomatic service, from its founding and early principles through the 20th century evolution of its habits and culture.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Nationalism and Global Solidarities

Nationalism and Global Solidarities Review

See more picture

Nationalism and Global Solidarities Feature

Even in the face of neoliberal globalization, nationalism remains a significant political force. The leading contributors to this new volume explore the extent to which nationalism can be a foundation for alternative solidarities. Against the axiom that with globalization ‘all that is solid melts into air,’ this anthology debates the extent to which different forms of solidarity remain viable - from the solidarities of local political groups to the solidarities of nationalism, internationalism and alternative globalisms.

Organized into three sections, the book addresses the relationship between the contemporary formations of nationalism, globalism and solidarity movements:

• Part 1 offers a framework for understanding globalization and discusses the effect of globality on nationalism
• Part 2 addresses the logics of nationalisms in globalizing contexts: respectively, liberal nationalism, left nationalism, post-colonial nationalism, and revivals of nationalism
• Part 3 addresses issues of solidarity and integration in a world of nationalism and globalism, asking how differing forms of connectivity may be emerging, disrupting prevailing oppositions and relations, focusing on social movements and solidarity.

Offering the first detailed study of the relationship between globalization and nationalism, Nationalism and Global Solidarities will be of strong interest to students and scholars of politics, sociology and international political economy.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Parallels: Webster's Timeline History, 387 BC

Parallels: Webster's Timeline History, 387 BC Review

See more picture

Parallels: Webster's Timeline History, 387 BC Feature

Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Parallels," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Parallels in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Parallels when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Parallels, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

The Hawk Knows: I Was Snared by Greed

The Hawk Knows: I Was Snared by Greed Review

See more picture

The Hawk Knows: I Was Snared by Greed Feature

The Hawk Knows: I Was Snared by Greed
By:
Paul Sheckler

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Little America

Little America Review

See more picture

Little America Feature

A suspense novel, a political thriller, a novel of discovery—Little America opens in Boston today and tells the story of a man in search of the truth about his father’s past, a past locked away in the C.I.A.’s code of silence.

Terry Hooper’s father—Quaker-raised, Yale-educated, a sometime poet, now a retired (is he?) State Department veteran—was, in the 1950s, the C.I.A. station chief in Kurash, a small, newly constituted Middle Eastern country, a country caught in the grip of cold war politics, a country of beautiful and frightening Otherness (Arab women hidden behind their veils, scar-faced men on horseback with curved sabers, and streets that melted in the heat), 90 percent Muslim, lodged like a walnut between Syria and Iraq. Mack Hooper’s assignment: to win the confidence of the King of Kurash, an enigmatic, British-educated desert aristocrat to whom no one, not even the U.S. Ambassador, had been able to get close.

In a narrative that moves backward and forward in time, Terry puts together the pieces of the puzzle that has haunted him. Is his father a good man? Was he a friend to the young King, or a diplomat-seducer sent to betray him?
What Terry unearths about the American intrigues in Kurash, about promises made, about monies delivered, about betrayal, about courage, about “us” and “them,” is brilliantly told in a novel that royally entertains while it evokes the conflict between private morality and public policy as it recaptures a time gone by, a time when Americans set out armed with “good intentions,” youthful desire for adventure, and the belief that they could save the world.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Military Intelligence Blunders

Military Intelligence Blunders Review

See more picture

Military Intelligence Blunders Feature

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

MovieChopShop: The Book

MovieChopShop: The Book Review

See more picture

MovieChopShop: The Book Feature

For the past year, MovieChopShop.com has explored cinema's grander place in the pop-cultural and political psyche of the world. And...dare I say it...the Universe. In these pages you will find a cadre of mind-altering texts. Articles include: * The Movie Trailer Formula: Why do we love it so? * In Defense of Dr. Manhattan's Penis * The Biggest Plot Hole in Cinema History: Terminator Salvation * My Last Defense: Why Transformers is destroying America! * 1985 Redux! How Biff Tannen destroyed the world! (And also saved it) From blockbusters to awards films and everything in between, we at MovieChopShop are dedicated to bringing you the truth about movies, past and present.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Political Losers

Political Losers Review

See more picture

Political Losers Feature

History is invariably written from the perspective of the winners. But losers also have stories to tell. And there are valuable lessons to be learned from the defeated. Join author Michael B. Davie as he examines the meaning and significance of such diverse events as the l700s Acadian expulsion in Canada; Vietnam War and the defeat of Walter Mondale to Ronald Reagan in the United States; and the forced famines of the Ukrainian Holocaust. It's a fascinating look at those who faced life's trials - and came in second.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review